We use your information to provide, manage, bill for, market, research, and improve our services, to respond to your questions, and to address technical and customer service issues. We also use your information to deliver customized content or advertising and to communicate service updates, offers, and promotions. Your information may be used to protect network integrity and security, to ensure quality control, to optimize capacity and prevent misuse of Tipmont’s network, products, and services, and to implement Tipmont’s Internet Service Policies and Disclosures. Your information may also be used for engineering and technical support. We also reserve the right to share any collected information with Tipmont Rural Electric Membership Corporation in connection with its services, our services, and internal or shared business purposes.

Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy, in privacy policies for specific services, or in agreements with customers, Tipmont does not sell, license, or share information that individually identifies our customers or people using our networks without the consent of the person whose information will be shared.

We use vendors and partners to help us manage, provide, bill for, market, research, and improve our services. We share information with those vendors and partners when that information is helpful for them to perform work on our behalf. We require that these vendors and partners protect the customer information we provide to them and limit their use of customer data to the purposes for which it was provided. We do not permit these vendors and partners to use this information for their own marketing purposes.

We may also, as permitted by law, disclose information (including information that

individually identifies our customers or identifies customer devices) in certain circumstances, including: (1) to comply with valid legal process; (2) to prevent illegal activities; (3) to protect our rights or property; (4) to protect the safety of any person; (5) to a third-party that you have authorized to verify your account information; (6) as part of a corporate business transaction, such as a merger or acquisition; (7) with your consent; or (8) to enforce the Service Agreement.

We will sometimes collect information about how you use our products and services in an anonymous manner that does not include personal or proprietary information. We use this information to analyze and improve our services and marketing efforts. This anonymous information may be shared with other entities, such as governments or trade groups that may use this data for purposes of industry analysis, strategic or municipal planning, and emergency and disaster response coordination. This anonymous information may also be shared with other companies for their own marketing, advertising or other similar uses.